1967 Mattell Popeye The Sailor Talking Puppet talking has been worked on that's

1967 Mattell Popeye The Sailor Talking Puppet talking has been worked on that's why there's a tear. It's a lot of fun<br>His real name was Frank "Rocky" Fiegel.<br><br>He was born in 1868, in Poland and, as a child, immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled down in a small town in Illinois.<br><br>As a young man, Rocky went to sea.<br><br>After a 20-year career as a sailor in the Merchant Marines, Fiegel retired.<br><br>He was later hired by Wiebusch's Tavern in the city of Chester, Illinois as a ‘Bouncer’ to maintain order in the rowdy bar.<br><br>Rocky quickly developed a reputation for always being involved in fighting (and usually winning). As a result, he had a deformed eye ("Pop-eye").<br><br>He also ‘always’ smoked his pipe, so he always spoke out of one side of his mouth.<br><br>In his spare time as a bouncer, Rocky would entertain the customers by regaling them with exciting stories of adventures he claimed to have had over his career as a sailor crossing the ‘Seven Seas.’<br><br>The creator of Popeye, Elzi